Oh wow a 3080ti that thing is ancient I'm not sure how you're still running on that but honestly good for you. It's nice to see you guys reusing your very old and ancient hardware
On the one hand this sub acts like hardware should continue to improve as rapidly as it did in the early 2000s, on the other people get upset when a 6 year old GPU is treated as old.
That's part of the reason why GPU prices have been trending up so hard: Because the improvements in raw silicon and therefore the performance gains in GPUs have slowed down so much, it has become much more sensible for people to buy high-end GPUs.
An $800+ GPU used to become outdated in 3 years just like any other, so it made more sense to buy lower to mid tier GPUs and replace them somewhat frequently. But in a world where generations release slowly and offer more limited performance gains, GPUs are expected to have 6-10 year life spans, so buying a cheap one can mean to be stuck with low performance for a decade.
So the market has shifted towards the higher end in response. The 80 and 90 tier cards have sold crazy numbers for their price points because of that.
You’re spot on. I got a 970 in 2014, replaced in 2021. By 2019 it felt old. But the replacement 6900XT isn’t feeling outdated yet, nor is it struggling with new games.
Cause that is pretty much a 3080 equivalent. I run a 3060 ti equivalent (6750) and it is absolutely fine at 1440p now that fsr4 can be easily added to games.
Not quite the early 2000s, but the 2009 GTX 295's $500 MSRP comes out at $800 today after adjusting for inflation.
Considering that it lost over half its value in 2 years because the GTX 560 Ti delivered identical performance with better feature compatibility for half the price in 2011, I wouldn't consider that a better purchase than an RTX 4070 or 4070 Ti (depending on whether you want to compare prices with or without inflation) would have been 3 years ago.
As for the gaming experience: The GTX 295 struggled to hit 30 FPS in a number of AAA games of its time. It got barely over 30 in Crysis with 'adjusted settings' in PCGH's test (not just a max setting benchmark like most reviewers do today), and had 27 FPS avg/18 lows in Stalker: Clear Skies at just 1280x1024. The 4K-equivalent of the time was 1680x1050, where it dropped to an unplayable 15 FPS in Stalker.
These days players act like 60 FPS is the minimum, and the GTX 295 just barely accomplished that in graphically simpler titles like Fallout 3 and L4D (both around 60 avg/50 low).
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Oh wow a 3080ti that thing is ancient I'm not sure how you're still running on that but honestly good for you. It's nice to see you guys reusing your very old and ancient hardware